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The solution for the Rohingya problem is when all Rohingya are shipped off to Pakistan. There is no reason to entertain them either in Myanmar or India, and if the overflowing Bangladesh, whose government is at the moment well-disposed to India, is also against taking in Rohingyas, then Pakistan is ...

The issue is not when the Yuan dynasty ended, but when it started. Vedveer Arya gives the dates from 619 CE - 1368 CE. And Vedveer Arya is wrong. because Yuan dynasty did not end in 1368 CE. We have writings from tamerlane, where he is planning invasion of Ming China to put the Yuan as titular head...

British were awful but they were also past masters in the art of divide and rule, and we Indians really need to memorize these lessons. China is huge and has just as many fault-lines as India. On top of that it has a hard but brittle political shell which can be brought to an implosion. In order to ...

Not at all. My point was merely about the equipment and the quality of the soldier manning it. That apart, I do agree with what you wrote in the post above The hans, it is rumoured, have 30 odd million excess males that they would well do to get rid of. This is because of their misguided one child ...

In the next days there would be many articles appearing in respected newspapers and other media outlets of ostensible adversary countries of China, say Japan, Korea, USA, UK, etc. which would try to make the case that there is a lot of tension and hostility between North Korean regime and China at t...

This sudden U-turn is rather suspicious, its rather like the Chinese have figured out that bullying us openly and directly is going to backfire, and putting us at ease by empty flattery and duplicitous and worthless but positive-seeming PR gestures, while continuing their expansionism, encirclement...

Joint declarations from multilateral forums like BRICS, SCO and APEC are important for China to give its image and expansionist agenda a veneer of international blessing, considering that its only close strategic buddies are Pakistan and North Korea. For India, these joint declarations are only impo...

Cross-posting from "Neutering & Defanging Chinese Threat (09-08-2014)" Thread There is a serious misunderstanding of Chinese among Indians and vice versa. "Shameful facts" that reveal Indian realities are seen by Indians as the truth that require to be addressed, not as &quo...

There is a serious misunderstanding of Chinese among Indians and vice versa. "Shameful facts" that reveal Indian realities are seen by Indians as the truth that require to be addressed, not as "shame causing facts" that should be hidden to avoid embarrassment. Poverty is not hid...

A different perspective showing how Congress has been screwing with India''s and Bhutan's security Giving Bhutan its due By Tenzing Lamsang The Doklam stand-off, from the beginning, has been dominated by an India-and-China narrative, but a largely silent but firm Bhutan held some of the most importa...

Next step (V. 2.0) to pi$$ing off the over-fed, self pleasuring han, I have a suggestion: As part of the ongoing (and shall I say, demonstratively successful) neutering of the han (V. 1.0), Indians should online publish maps of chini-occupied and chini-influenced lands with their original Sanskrit ...

China wasted several decades in not coming to an agreement with India, Nepal and Bhutan regarding the boundary. Even if China had had to make concessions on the boundary, it would have been a fantastic bargain, because it would have cemented China's claims over Tibet and East Turkestan (Xinjiang). N...

I recently got a decent definition of "Dravida" from Prof. Girinath Jha, Prof. of Sanskrit, JNU: They who live near water. Absolutely nothing about north or south or black or white. Maybe ppl chewing the cud here should put in papers to that conference advertised above. Also, the word Dra...

x posted from the political thread. This is an interesting take on china, especially, given the recent doklam standoff. We may be able to get some idea as to why the hans reacted the way that they did. https://youtu.be/A3uaQyttZuw American Analyst Describing Why China is Worried About Rising India ...

If you want to see a classic case of distortion of history by EJ/BIF types, you need look no further than what they are doing with Thiruvalluvar today. Even according to "accepted" history or dating today, Thiruvalluvar lived before the era of Jesus Christ. But that doesn't stop these peo...

China’s playbook, however, did not go according to plan this time, because it did not account for India’s unexpectedly swift and assertive response to its road-building. India did not simply voice displeasure or threaten to punish China if it continued to pursue its territorial claims as the United...

Cambodia Cross-posting from "India and ASEAN / East Asia" Thread By Vedveer Arya https://scontent-frx5-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/21078294_993041167504490_8398222093671746167_n.jpg?oh=00f496f135c19b4a55c0ba5820d5e0ca&oe=5A1A35CC Kambār or Kamban was the celebrated author of Ramavataram a...

I noticed that in the Doklam-standoff, Japan made a pro-India statement. That is a good portent. This is what needs to be done more often. The moment some country in Asia has a problem with China, others need to start asking China to adhere to international norms and pull back. If Mongolia, or Vietn...

If we want to have an upper hand in Tibet, we have to make the Tibetan people a part of our strategy. In fact they are best suited for mountain warfare. We need to have a Tibetan Mountain Regiment, which allows all Tibetans in India to enroll, serve India (and Tibet) and get 1st class military train...

Tightening the Screws On Pakistani Immigrants in West Trump Administration has announced a new policy of tightening the screws on Pakistan regarding Pakistan's support to terrorists. This policy however needs more muscle. What is needed is to pressurize the Rich Anglicized Pakistani Elite (RAPE) cl...

Actually you may have inadvertently answered your own question, and if I may say so, you perhaps have given an explanation which neither Vedveer Arya nor I had hit upon! Vedveer Arya says that the history of 47 kings of Yuan dynasty of 700 years has been compressed to mere 90 years. Again, false ra...

As far as Chinese hurling insults are concerned, that is mostly a sign of someone playing a weak hand, trying to compensate lack of balls or strength with lots of substandard verbosity. During this whole standoff, I've felt that China has been behaving as someone whose little finger has been twisted...

Indians are saying the problem at Doklam has been resolved just as they always wanted. That means Indian interests in all this have been secured. The MEA communique will not expand on this any further as face-saving is always part of the deal.

Doklam Standoff represents the first true push back of New China on the international stage! Chinese have had to blink and India wins this stare-down. The main Indian complaint was about Chinese road-building in Doklam. If the Chinese have assured to desist from doing so in the immediate future, the...

SriJoy ji, Vedveer Arya is saying there is a 662 year hole in the history of several cultures. So basically the relative history more or less remains the same. Some things in Indian history are however a lot more ancient, e.g. Buddha Nirvana is 1864 BCE. So relative history arguments which you are ...

We need to start apprehending Chinese soldiers at the border and selling them off to the brothels from Africa to Afghanistan as chickney hairless lady boys and leashed pets and then tip-off a BBC team to make a documentary on their plight with them sitting there with lipstick on!

SriJoy ji, Vedveer Arya is saying there is a 662 year hole in the history of several cultures. So basically the relative history more or less remains the same. Some things in Indian history are however a lot more ancient, e.g. Buddha Nirvana is 1864 BCE. So relative history arguments which you are u...

More Doklam-like incidents possible in future: Army chief - PTI What this really means is that India would be calling out such kind of incidents a lot more. The Indian Army fully expects that it would perceive the Chinese as trespassers more often. The Indians have now decreased the bar, when we wo...

Cambodia By Vedveer Arya https://scontent-frx5-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/21078294_993041167504490_8398222093671746167_n.jpg?oh=00f496f135c19b4a55c0ba5820d5e0ca&oe=5A1A35CC Kambār or Kamban was the celebrated author of Ramavataram also known as Kamba Ramayanam. He wrote his treatise in Viruttam me...

If you write him off, it is your loss, not his. Vedveer Arya gives the date of Xuanzang as 58 BCE-4 CE. He did visit India during the time of Pulakeśin II, the Chalukya Emperor, but his contemporary was Harsha Vikramaditya of Ujjain of the Chaitrādi Vikrama Samvat of 57 BC and Navaratana fame, and ...

As for being too quick- explain to me, why should I not write him off , based on my reasoning regarding Shri Harshavardhana. None of what i said is falsehood or 'evil western doctrine'. Infact, i can present Xuanzeng's writings if you like. Explain to me, what good reasons he has for backdating Har...

I will say one thing- upon cursory glance to one of his articles, i noticed his 'Guru parampara of Srirengi mattha'. Well, most of my parents generation are actually educated in Ramkrishna Missions - and we know Mattha well. Srirengi is not the only one, yet it is the only one that is completely ou...

SriJoy ji, Where have you been given your historical information? Did you painstakingly try to recreate it from primary sources or did you just digest what was served to you in school, through books and through "eminent" historians? If you did not recreate it from primary sources, then it ...

These are the proposals of Shri Vedveer Arya http://imageshack.com/a/img922/5900/JgSE1Z.jpg http://imageshack.com/a/img923/2440/tSQ9oE.jpg On what basis are we to consider such opinion, which flies in face of any and all epigraphical evidence ? i will say one more time: anyone who thinks Ashokan er...

Only quid pro quo for Indian involvement in Afghanistan is independence of Balochistan from Pakistan and reintegration of PoK with India. In any case these are the prerequisites of having a viable supply route to Afghanistan for India.

This is a fight China cannot win. With every passing day, all China is doing is strengthening the resolve of the Indians, China is stoking nationalism among Indians. So as soon as fighting starts, China can be assured that it would putting all their expansion into Tibet and East Turkestan into jeopa...